Posted on 09/09/2011 5:22:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
National Security: The Sept. 11 commission stated that our biggest failure was one of imagination. Imagine an Iranian nuclear device detonating high over the American heartland. They're working on it.
On the same day the 9/11 Commission issued its report, another commission issued a report on a threat that could change our world and way of life in ways we can scarcely imagine. It is a real and credible threat, and it is largely being ignored.
The threat is a phenomenon known as electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, and demonstrates why the issue of homeland security extends beyond the need for body scanners or taking our shoes off at the airport. It's why ignoring Iran is dangerous and why a robust national missile defense should be of the highest priority.
This threat to our national security was the subject of study by the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack, established by unanimous consent of the House and Senate. Released on the same day as the 9/11 Commission report, few paid attention.
It is a scenario worthy of Hollywood, but it is a frighteningly real possibility. A solitary ballistic missile, perhaps an ICBM launched by a decaying North Korean regime or an Iranian mullah, or a terrorist Scud launched from a ship off the Atlantic Coast carrying the first Islamic nuke, detonates its warhead 25 to 300 miles above the U.S. mainland.
Nobody is harmed or killed immediately by the blast. But life in America, the world's only superpower and largest economy, comes to a screeching halt as a country dependent on 21st-century technology regresses almost a century instantaneously.
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Read the book “One Second After” — a novel. Not the greatest writing in the world, but a very compelling book.
It’s likely just a matter of time. We may stop them a few times, but eventually they’ll get one through.
It would need a hydrogen bomb and a very powerful booster, and it would not cripple the U.S. ability to respond, since most of the U.S. military force would be under the sea or over the horizon from the EMP.
This is why I’m such a Luddite. We are WAY too dependent on electronic toys.
I think the Iranian fleet would sink before they got close enough to launch an EMP.
I’m more worried about the plethora of conventional arms that are pouring onto the Black Market from places like Libya....
But the issue is “respond against whom?” Ultimately we might be able to discover who sent the nuke but that could take lots of time and you would want to be damned sure you had the right people identified.
Follow the rocket course! Follow the ship! We can and do do both!
One of our biggest fears on the “Threat Matrix” threads.
Iran is building missile sites in Valenzuela which will put the eastern half of the US within range.
They’ve also orbited a 60kg payload, which would allow them to put that 60kg anywhere they want.
Or from our own govt.
“If Iran wants to destroy the U.S., not merely cripple it, it would need several hundred bombs and launchers.”
It needs 3 bombs and the ability to detonate them at the proper altitude and location.
“Meanwhile, Iran would be reduced to trinitite.”
Its an acceptable tradeoff for their leaders.
Where the hell is Valenzuela?
Its close to the country where Shavez is the leader.
Remote pilot the falsely flagged cargo ship, launch, scuttle vessel.
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